{"id":12901,"date":"2025-12-20T19:50:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T19:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=12901"},"modified":"2025-12-20T19:50:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T19:50:29","slug":"all-the-work-is-only-where-there-are-two-ways-1","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/all-the-work-is-only-where-there-are-two-ways-1\/","title":{"rendered":"88. All the Work Is Only Where There Are Two Ways \u2013 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I heard after Shabbat&nbsp;<em>BeShalach<\/em>, January 24, 1948<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All the work is only where there are two ways, as it is written, \u201cAnd he shall live by them, and he shall not die by them. And the issue of \u2018shall die and not breach\u2019 applies only to three&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot<\/em>&nbsp;[commandments]: idolatry, bloodshed, and incest.\u201d And yet, we find that the first&nbsp;<em>Hassidim<\/em>&nbsp;would give their lives over [commandments] to-do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And we should know that all the work and the labor are only when one should observe the Torah. At that time, one feels the heavy load that the body does not agree to the conditions of the Torah. But when a person is rewarded, and the Torah guards him, no heaviness is sensed in the work of the Creator since the Torah guards a person, as it is written, \u201cOne\u2019s soul shall teach him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard after Shabbat&nbsp;BeShalach, January 24, 1948 All the work is only where there are two ways, as it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":6231,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"topic":[25],"class_list":["post-12901","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","topic-baal-hasulam"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kabbalah | 88. 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